The city of Boston plans to toughen up laboratory safety protocols after revelations that three Boston University (BU) researchers were accidentally infected with a lethal strain of tularemia they ...

Containment cabinets in a BSL-3 laboratory, prior to the construction of modern BSL-4 labs. At first glance, the lab looks like any other. The refrigerators, centrifuges, and computers are all ...

How the times have changed. A little over 17 years ago, in an auditorium at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston Texas, a motley crew of dignitaries gathered to celebrate the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Infectious diseases don’t respect borders. Because of the global economy and unprecedented mobility, everyone on the planet is ...

Klare X. Allen stands in the middle of the gravel parking lot that may one day house Boston University’s “biocontainment” laboratory, pointing out landmarks. Her arm sweeps in a semicircle, past the ...

(MENAFN- IANS) Ahmedabad, Jan 15 (IANS) Gujarat is set to significantly strengthen its biosecurity infrastructure with the construction of its first Biosafety Level-4 (BSL-4) laboratory, a ...